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quince
айва (Cydonia) – Chinese quince – Japanese quince
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n. 1 a hard acid pear-shaped fruit used as a preserve or flavouring. 2 any shrub or small tree of the genus Cydonia, esp. C. oblonga, bearing this fruit. Etymology: ME, orig. collect. pl. of obs. quoyn, coyn, f. OF cooin f. L cotoneum var. of cydoneum (apple) of Cydonia in Crete ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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noun Etymology: Middle English quynce ~s, plural of coyn, quyn ~, from Anglo-French coign, from Latin cotoneum, alteration cydonium, from Greek kydonion Date: 14th century 1. the fruit of a central Asian tree (Cydonia oblonga) of the rose family that resembles a hard-fleshed yellow apple and is used especially in preserves 2. a tree that bears ~s — compare Japanese ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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(quinces) A quince is a hard yellow fruit. Quinces are used for making jelly or jam. N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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- early 14c., pl. of quoyn, from O.Fr. cooin, from L. cotoneum malum "quince fruit," probably a variant of cydonium malum, from Gk. kydonion malon "apple of Kodu," from Kydonia "Cydonia" (modern Khania), ancient seaport city in Crete. The plant is native to Persia, Anatolia, and Greece; the Greeks imported grafts for their native plants from a superior strain in Crete, hence the name. Kodu- was also the Lydian name for the fruit. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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